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Rusty Coffin Nails

@braegrosz.com

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She/They. Greyromantic. Aspiring bog body. Writer. You can support my work via https://ko-fi.com/braegrosz.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · Sep 5

Hello, new followers! And old followers who like handy threads of links to boost!

I’m Rusty, pen name B. Rae Grosz (she/they), purveyor of sad, strange stories, true and fictional. I write about ghosts and other hauntings, often with folklore, fairytale, and/or gothic inspirations.

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B. Rae Grosz

ghost stories & other haunting tales

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 8d

Humorous old flash fic that I wrote, loosely inspired by Elizabeth Báthory.

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Erzsi's Bath

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Chris Woodyard @chriswoodyard.bsky.social · 3d

#31daysofhalloween #spookybook #booktober #ghosts
Ghosts in the Great War and True Tales of Haunted Houses Thrilling Personal Experiences of “Daily News” Readers,
S. Louis Giraud

Red book in front of multicolored floral curtain

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 7h

It’s interesting that Republicans keep talking about No Kings on Oct. 18 as though it’s just a DC protest.

The protests are nationwide. Find your local one here: www.nokings.org#map

Politico @politico.com · 1d

Johnson slams the No Kings protest march scheduled to take place in DC next week as the “hate America rally” that would draw “the pro-Hamas wing” and “the antifa people.”

Johnson describes planned No Kings rally as ‘hate America,’ ‘pro-Hamas’ gathering

Organizers largely blew off the rhetoric, but some Democrats online criticized the tone.

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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · 1d

We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: linktr.ee/disabilityark

Horror & Disability. Help us write disabled takes on horror movies for a free zine. We are looking for volunteers who are interested in writing 300-350 words, (about 1-2 paragraphs) on how disability is portrayed in horror movies. Please feel free to reach out for more information. Deadline 24th October 2025
Contact Richardamm(at)gmail.com
Find our free disability zines: https://linktr.ee/disabilityark

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 8h

This is why I inevitably wind up turning all my inclinations toward nonfiction into Romancing the Gothic talks. @romgothsam.bsky.social has done such an amazing job of making the project accessible for both presenters and audiences of varied backgrounds.

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 8h

Catching up on the readings from #AScareADay that I couldn't get to while I was on vacation.

October 6th - "And now the house dog stretched once more" by Emily Brontë

I enjoyed the vagueness of the creepy, unsettling "something in his face... And something in his voice's tone."

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C. M. Rosens @cmrosens.com · 5d

If you want to read it on Ko-Fi instead, find it here (free to all): ko-fi.com/post/ScareAD...

I'm trying to post every day in response to the challenge's story/poem for that day. Sometimes fiction, sometimes longer thoughts, folklore, films.

#AScareADay #Horror #Indie #WritingCommunity #WriteSky

#AScareADay - Day 6 - And Now The House-Dog Stretched Once More

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Dr Sam Hirst @romgothsam.bsky.social · 5d

Day 6 of #AScareADay and we're on with another poem! This time it's Emily Bronte with a technically untitled poem (I think) about a mysterious stranger and his basilisk eye...

I recorded it with my new mic so better sound quality!

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Emily Brontë – ‘And now the house dog stretched once more’ (1839)

YouTube video by Romancing the Gothic

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Grid @isbergillustration.bsky.social · 10h

Guy I met while picking blueberries this summer. Would not share their best spots, 2/10.
#inktober

A spooky figure hovers at the end of a rock bridge between the trees

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 14h

Posting this for @darthbluesky.bsky.social to see when he comes back from his weekend off

A ghost holding a red and blue striped box filled with French fries.

“NO MATTER WHAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE, THERE'S SOME FORM OF POTATO THAT CAN MAKE IT BETTER.”
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Vex Corvine @vexcorvine.itch.io · 4d

Time for a new pinned post because I'm working writer and I need to remember that.

I write about vampires and werewolves doing violent things to eugenicists and fascists, and also about lesbians either being monsters or dealing with monsters (however you might define “monster”).

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 9h

ME, IN SCHOOL: I wish teachers would stop making me write essays and other nonfiction and just let me write my stories.

ME, NOW: Why am I writing an article about a true story of murder, injustice, and community grief and revenge through the act of creative retellings? Who would even publish this?

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 27d

ME, IN SCHOOL: I wish teachers would stop making me write essays and other nonfiction and just let me write my stories.

ME, NOW: I like my stories, but what if I wrote a nonfiction book about this true tale of inept banditry, possible bigamy, and double suicide that I found in some old newspapers?

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Thomas S Brown @tomsbrown.bsky.social · 9h

Impending witch...

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Dorian David Leigh @notdoriangray.bsky.social · 9h

Well, I saw this.

A really boring, and I cannot emphasise enough just how boring, greywacke rock (smooth, grey, exactly what you'd picture if you imagined an unexciting large smooth grey stone). Only this one has googly eyes stuck to it, and suddenly it has personality! Admittedly that personality is, "shit, I've got a personality, what the fuck do I do now?!" To be fair, that's probably better than being a shit bit of rock.

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Melissa Edmundson @melissae.bsky.social · 9h

Elizabeth Gaskell’s "The Old Nurse's Story," one of the finest Victorian ghost stories ever written, originally appeared in the Extra Christmas Number of Household Words in 1852. #BookWormSat

Black and white portrait of Elizabeth Gaskell.

Front cover to the Penguin edition of Elizabeth Gaskell’s collected Gothic Tales.

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Lillian Hochwender (a.k.a. Lillie) @ligerlillie.bsky.social · 9h

Marie Antoinette shortly after the guillotine:

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Sam Still Masks 🪉 @theailingwitch.bsky.social · 9h

Let’s get some Saturday #MutualAid going!

If you are disabled, chronically ill, and/or any flavor of trans, please feel welcome to post your links, shops, projects, etc.— any way we can support you!

If you want to ask “does X count?”, it does!

Nondisabled cis folks: repost & support folks below!

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 10h

You are the third person to recommend Finch to me. Is taking this as a sign the modern equivalent of augury?

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 10h

Are you a nerdy goth who likes hedgehogs? There’s a museum exhibit of a skull for that!

Museum exhibit of a small skull, labeled with a card that reads:

European Hedgehog
(Skull)
Erinaceus concolor
Ward’s Articulation
1892 circa

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 10h

I am trying, despite my knowledge that caffeine doesn’t seem to affect me unless taken with adderall, which I, alas, no longer have.

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Mike Z @mikez.bsky.social · 11h

Sunken punkin. #art

A pumpkin diving helmet sits at the bottom of the sea. Close by there is strange sea life, including a squidish acorn and a leaf-tailed fish. Painted with coffee.

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Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 10h

Surely there’s a chance that today will be the day when I unlock the secret to doing things as quickly as I want to, rather than being forced to accept the constraints of time!

Rusty Coffin Nails @braegrosz.com · 10h

I know that my plan to catch up on all the reading and all the writing I didn’t have time for while I was on vacation, while also getting laundry and other neglected chores done today is not realistic. Probably. But…

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Magen Cubed @magencubed.bsky.social · 3d

I assembled a list of short films you can watch right now for free this Halloween. Scary, strange, surreal, and sometimes funny, this list includes live action, stop motion, and animated films from around the world and from filmmakers you've never heard of before

Some Strange Things You Should Watch for Halloween

20 short weird, scary, funny, and surreal films you can watch right now.

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Atthis Arts @atthisarts.com · 10d

All October, Atthis Arts is celebrating Black Speculative Fiction Month, and we hope you'll join us! We're going to start with a *spark*. This one is a must-read. Go get it. Incendiary by Gerald L. Coleman.

Incendiary: Poems & Essays

Poems & Essays

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